Affirm
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (AI Platform)
US, Canada
UTC-10 to UTC-3.5 $112k to $255k per year Full time
Senior
- Where you can live
- Remote US ยท Remote Canada
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-3.5
- Salary
- USD 195,000 to 255,000 per year
- Posted
- October 30, 2026
Summary from the posting
- Plan, execute, and own technical decisions and projects within the AI Platform team, from design through launch and on-call.
- Design and build the gateway, runtime, and evaluation services that take AI workloads at Affirm from pilot to production, securely scaling across millions of users and their transactions.
- Make AI spend attributable and governable: build the identity, quota, routing, caching, and failover controls that let teams adopt new models and tools without re-solving the same platform problems.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to set the guardrails for agentic workloads and the on-behalf-of identity model for tool access.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Affirm's own career page.